YURI NORSTEIN — RUSSIAN POETIC ANIMATION

VISUAL STYLE: Yuri Norstein multi-plane animation — Hedgehog in the Fog, Tale of Tales. Layered glass planes creating impossible depth. Painterly, dreamlike, melancholic. The most poetic animation tradition in existence.

COLOUR PALETTE: Autumn fog palette — pale grey, warm amber, deep forest green, soft gold. Colours are muted and atmospheric, as if seen through morning mist. Nothing is fully saturated. Everything has the quality of a half-remembered dream.

DEPTH: Foreground elements sharp and tactile, middle ground softening, background dissolving into atmospheric haze. Objects emerge from and dissolve into fog. Depth is emotional, not just spatial.

TEXTURE: Paint on glass. Brushstroke visible in every surface. The physicality of the medium is always present.

FIGURES: Small against vast environments. Simple in outline but carrying immense emotional weight through their smallness and their stillness.

MOVEMENT: Minimal and precise. A leaf falls. A figure turns slowly. Long holds on static images. When something moves, it matters.

ATMOSPHERE: Fog, mist, smoke, and soft rain are recurring presences. The environment is always slightly uncertain at its edges.

No photographs. No digital sharpness. Painterly depth and atmospheric haze throughout — every frame is a reverie.